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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 314 – Sensitive New Age Gorillas

  • November 15, 2018
  • Tagged as: dung beetles, Gorillas, Hubble Space Telescope, pollution, whales

Hubble fixed, worms in dung beetle genitals, noise and pollution hurting whales, and babysitting gorillas.

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  • Alayna Hansen
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast

SoT 306: Don’t Call It A Wolphin

  • August 12, 2018
  • Tagged as: bats, dolphins, Dr. Pamela Gay, ebola, evolution, hurricanes, hybrid, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, lizards, particle physics, whales, wolphin

A new Ebola virus, lizards evolve better grip after hurricanes, hybrid cross of two dolphins is not a ‘wolphin’ and the LHC has test-fired bunches of atoms.

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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Peter Miller
  • Podcast

SoT 293: Hot Chilli Wars

  • April 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: Alpha Centauri, capsaicin, chillies, Don't Try This At Home, exoplanets, music, Proxima Centauri, solar flares, whales

Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!

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  • Ed Brown
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 266: Sperm Whales Have Teeth

  • June 10, 2017
  • Tagged as: drones, dugongs, ecology, evolution, gastric bypass surgery, Great Barrier Reef, gut microbiome, whales

Why are giant whales so big? Gastric bypass changes gut flora, dugongs making a slow comeback, and underwater drone improvements.

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  • Ed Brown
  • Helen Maynard-Casely
  • Lucas Randall
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 180: Condescending Chameleons

  • March 23, 2015
  • Tagged as: astronomy, atmosphere, bacteria, chameleons, crystallography, Grandmother Hypothesis, killer whales, menopause, methane, microbes, obesity, sewage, Uranus, whales

Methane storms on Uranus, reasons for menopause, chameleon colours explained, and sewage as an indicator of obesity.

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  • Kate Naughton
  • Ketan Joshi
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  • Shayne Joseph
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SoT 138: The Undistributed Middle

  • March 13, 2014
  • Tagged as: health monitor, heart monitor, hurricanes, paleontology, whales, wind farms, wind turbines

Wind turbines, hurricanes, ancient whale bones and a sock for your heart!

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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Podcast
  • Shayne Joseph
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SoT 137: It’s Just Like College

  • March 5, 2014
  • Tagged as: Age of the Earth, dogs, language, new species, Vaccines, whales

Warm vaccines, the oldest crystal, counting whales, dogs in fMRI and sex-crazed marsupials!

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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 6: Frolicking Death Trap

  • April 27, 2011
  • Tagged as: ancestors, astronomy, bacteria, binary stars, language, pluto, whales

Language May Have Helped Early Humans Spread Out of Africa Pluto.

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Podcast Reviews

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    by Volk613 from Australia

    Always informative, often entertaining. Great selection of regulars with a variety of interests and expertise. Also great guests with and Australian focus.

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    by SB AUST. from Australia

    Nice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!

  • Fun and smart
    by wertys from Australia

    I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.

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